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The Value of Preoperative Planning

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, 2013
"Better to throw your disasters into the waste paper basket than to consign your patients to the scrap heap" has been a proverb of Jeff Mast, one of the greatest fracture and deformity surgeons in the history of our specialty. Stated slightly more scientifically, one of the major values of simulation is that it allows one to make mistakes in a ...
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Auditing a plan’s value

Planning Review, 1983
Strategic planning has become an indispensable tool for management, and while its effectiveness is widely assumed, its contribution is rarely quantified. In order to assess the value of strategic decision making in terms of its contribution to a firm’s sales, net income, and earnings, Leon Reinharth and his associates have prepared a case study of the ...
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Values and Planning

2017
Contents: Introduction Environmental ethics and the field of planning: alternative theories and middle-range principles Aesthetics in planning Values in the past: conserving heritage Environmental issues and the public interest Planning and justice Values, subjectivity, sex The moral mandate of the a /professiona of planning Political judgement and ...
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Values drive the plan

New Directions for Student Services, 2010
AbstractThis chapter explores the role of student affairs and institutional values in strategic planning. It also looks at the historical roots of the profession and methods for incorporating values into planning.
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Values and Planned Change

Social Casework, 1972
Clients’ values in relation to personal and social change—toward which a social worker has a positive affective regard—discipline his choices of action
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Valuing flexibility in utility planning

The Electricity Journal, 1994
Abstract Utilities should view flexible investment alternatives as resource “options,” which provide a potentially valuable right without the encumbrances of an obligation. The ability to quantify the value of flexibility using these methods permits a new approach to utility planning not possible with traditional Net Present Value approaches.
Thomas W. Kaslow, Robert S. Pindyck
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Plans and values

1979
Floorplans in buildings ace prestructured not only by functional restrictions, but also by attitudes towards preferred conditions. The attitudes are implicit in social and cultural traditions; yet not always are they explicitly stated as program intentions.
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Community Values in Vermont Health Planning

The Hastings Center Report, 1990
Community Values in Vermont Health Planning Most observers of America's health care system agree that change is necessary. Although we spend more per capita on health care than any other country in the world, the health of our population falls short of many other countries.
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Planning with Multi-Valued Landmarks

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2013
Landmark heuristics are perhaps the most accurate current known admissible heuristics for optimal planning. A disjunctive action landmark can be seen a form of at-least-one constraint on the actions it contains. In many domains, some critical propositions have to be established for a number of times.Propositional landmarks are too ...
Lei Zhang   +4 more
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The value of discharge planning tools

Nursing Management, 2017
Patient care is delivered in a variety of settings across the continuum. Increasingly, less of that care is provided within the four walls of an acute care hospital. However, it's within those four walls that postacute placement decisions are made, which impact a patient's healthcare ...
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